The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-05-26


army, This, whilst a remedy of a des-
potic sort for riots and disorder, is al
so as our fathers wisely taught us, u
standing menace to liberty Already
these disorders have so torn and har-
rassed several Of our most crowded
centers as to seriously alarm even
courageous citizens Capital is first
frightened by mob violence. Itis both
timid and selfish. On the first APP
proach OF danger it begins to cry out
for armies and strong Government.
A strong Government means a weak
citizenship, for it can only be made
strong by taking power from the peo-
pie. Ultimately, if the pressure CON
tinues, capital becomes willing to sur
render all rights and liberties to any
form of government that will promise
it protection. All this is traceable to
the discomiorts, suffering and dispair
which have tleir origin in over crowd
ing, Our hitherto prosperity and hap
piness, our high wages and contented
homes have all been for the chief part,
because we had rOOm Next to home,
there is no idea connected with exis-
tence upon this earth dearer to me
than that of roon1--of space abundant.
| am none of kin to old Daniel Boone,
but sympathise earnestly with tn
trait OF his nature which made him
move further into the wilderness when
ever he could see the smoke of another
settlers cabin. Room is the order OF
nature on land and sea There is no
development without room, either in
animate or inanimate things. Nature
destroys the weak to make room for
the strong The forests teach us that,
and the greatest miracle of the heav-
ems is the vast and unfathomable spa
ces given the celestial worlds in which
to work! Restriction in space from any
cause, is modified imprisonment abun
dant space is liberty, Some of the
American states make their rapid in
crease in population and their marvel
Gus development materially, a mat
ter OF perpetual boasting, and bewail
the backwardness of such unprogres
siye States as North Carolina and Ten
nessee. They are welcome so far as |
am concerned, to all they claim. North
| Carolina is quite content to 60 with
out sudden riches if she is also with.
out anarch;sm, labor strikes, railroad
destruction, burnings of cities, street
riots, and the remainder of the price
these prosperous States are paying
} and will have to pay, for their exotic
prosperity have conversed with
J many citizens of those States who
were visiting N. G. whose constant ex
J clamation was, "why don't you fill YOU
country with people, and cut downyouI
forests and open your mines? ~ an
: surprised to see so much land unculti
, vated!" They do not stop to reflect up
: on dangers which will come with mum
bers, nor upon the comfort and safet,
e ofroom. The day when there shall no
r be room in our country will surel,
0 come, though still far distant, with al
S its evils and dangers, in the due an,
# natural course OF events. 1t is not tn
i part OF wisdom to hasten it for the SAX
= of temporary advantage,
Il In the next place, there is DANCE
i to our institutions in the tendency t
l. succumb to the encroachments of car
J. ital and convert our democracy into
d plutocracy, No observing man ca
Il doubt this. There is scarcely u con
l. munity in America which does or ca
d resist the combination Of the none
d power by which it is surrounded. A
T. things favor its influence. The ag
d, and the country are essentially give
s. to the making Of money. The fo
n tunes OF American millionairs 60 ia
a, beyond the sums ever held IN indivit
ry ual hands, in any country, in the hist
a ry of our race, The thirst for go
a has become q court and we erect ter
n Piles and affairs in its honor. "
I'd worship it in the same spirit in whiC
ur the Greeks deifed the productiy
IN for nature and the Egyptians wo
in shipped Isis and Osisis, and the Ma
re the Sun, and which inspired the VIC
to ship of all primitive peoples Of the
objects which they regarded as u
rs most apparent cause OF all the
he good. Taught as the spirit OF Il
ur day teaches us, that money is t
a chief source of all blessings we devo
he ourselves to its acculation and We
is naturally give independence and he
fly or to those who have been successi
on in the struggle for it, regarding the
he as high priests of our religion and
nd men much favored OF the Gods,
in this superstition, the holders of t
re- surplus money of the country viii
ads we speak of as capital, take adv'
tage. BY combination and arran
or ment (for it is easy for the intelligt
9rs, and the few to combine) they not o.
control the business of the count